On July 12th 1962, The Rolling Stones played their first ever gig. That was 50 years ago, and to celebrate, BBC 6 Music have a special series of programmes throughout July.

One of the things they're doing, is asking some of 6 Music's favourite bands (if you drew a venn diagram the names would almost perfectly overlap with DiS' favourite bands) to do covers of their favourite Stones songs. This morning Lauren Laverne played a cover of ‘Blue Turns to Grey’ by The Walkmen and you dear readers, can hear the jingly-jangly sweetness, right here:

Here's the original if you don't know it:

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BBC 6 Music are also on a quest to find the nation's favourite Stones song from 5 decades of Mick & Keef & co. Details: